SYMBOLIC CEREMONIES
TuscanPledges specializes in symbolic ceremonies to celebrate your wedding, vow renewals, and other major events. We take pride in highlighting the milestones and commitments of your lives, at the time same acknowledging and honoring important transitions and events.
In celebrating with you, we will help you create a personalized script to meet your needs. Not only weddings and vow renewals, but also commitment ceremonies, baby welcoming, adoption ceremonies, survivor tributes, with the help of the rituals we suggest in our relevant section.
Please ask for our advice on readings to include in the ceremony, writing your own vows both for your wedding and your vow renewal, music, and tips and details to make your celebration a great success.
JO BERTOLINO
Jo Bertolino and her team have been holding symbolic ceremonies for years, in Italian, English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Norwegian and Swedish.
Jo, founder and owner of Tuscanpledges, is bilingual, she has lived in the US, where her mother is from. She is also a translator and interpreter by trade.
Her father is a Valdensian pastor emeritus.
She feels she owes her creativity to her mother, and her love of communication to her father.
She has lived in Florence for several years, by now considering herself a local.
She loves to meditate, an activity which has strongly contributed to her ability to listen and to create rituals that meet the ideas and needs of her couples.
THE TEAM
OUR COUPLES SAY
We cannot thank you enough…
It has taken us many months to truly digest the most amazing weekend of our lives in Florence. Whilst the weekend included so many different elements, all of which were… Leggi tutto “We cannot thank you enough…”
Thank you Jo, our wedding wouldn’t have been the same without you.
Today, if you want to know what the others are doing, and what they had for breakfast, nothing more effective than Facebook; but today I want to express the joy… Leggi tutto “Thank you Jo, our wedding wouldn’t have been the same without you.”
The wedding was above and beyond what we even imagined it would be.
Adam and I just returned from our honeymoon and we wanted to thank you as we had such an amazing experience in Firenze. The wedding was above and beyond what… Leggi tutto “The wedding was above and beyond what we even imagined it would be.”
You radiated a light of love that…
Sofia, Thank you for working with us, and for being our celebrant. You radiated a light of love that not only we felt, but our family felt as well; they… Leggi tutto “You radiated a light of love that…”
Many thanks for all your help and…
Hi Jo, I trust all is well and good in lovely Italy? Doug and I sure do miss it and wish we could be there whilst winter draws in here… Leggi tutto “Many thanks for all your help and…”